MANPOWER. EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN BY GOVERNMENT DEPTS. Memo. by Minister of Labour and National Service.

circumstances I cannot but regard the large-scale release of 5. In these from the Civil Service as absolutely essential to meet the Government programmes for the expansion of the Armed Forces and the production of munitions. In the Lord President's paper W.P. (41) 257 to which the Chancellor refers, my Department is to regard itself as under an obligation to make substitute labour available as fast as men are withdrawn into the Forces. I cannot, however, hope to discharge this obligation and at the same time to find the women required for the Women's Services unless young mobile women are drastically withdrawn from any work which could satisfactorily be carried out by older or immobile women.